How to make the Games vs Forums a better place

Originally posted by Peach
What?

Try making sense. You said you'd be surprised if we could name 10 new characters everyone likes. I said that I don't think I'd be able to name 10 characters, period, that everyone likes. There's a lot of characters that one person would think to be great and others won't like. Personally, most of the characters I see in here regularly I don't like myself.

Your little "name so many characters" thing is incredibly petty and juvenile and irrelevant.

i shouldnt have said it in that way, let me rephrase that...... i meant name 10 characters that would be good to use in threads. people dont have to like them, but that doesnt stop them from arguing. i dont like sephiroth, but if i think he will beat somebody, ill argue for him.

Well if you really want, I could probably name half of that from one game series alone...the Prince, Dark Prince, Farah, Kaileena, Shahdee, the Dahaka, and the Vizier. All great characters, all very usable, yet have rarely even been touched.

Plus everyone just approaches matches here as straight-out brawls. It doesn't necessarily need to be that. What about magic or summons battles (which thus allows for mages - Lulu, Yuna, Zelda, Garnet, Rydia, etc)? What about battles of wits? What about doing something other than matching up the strongest characters you can think of and using some of the other 'weaker' characters? Matches don't need to be straight beating the shit out of each other.

I've got 12 very usable characters listed there, if people would actually think. What now?

Indeed, you can do a lot just by appropriately expanding your definition and usage of "versus."

How about instead of using all the same overpowered characters all the time, have some fun - yes, fun in a forum about video games - and lessen the stakes. How about a match between a Koopa Troopa and a Shy Guy?

Also, to add to that list of characters, Alexandra Roivas, Jade from Beyond Good & Evil, Isaac and Felix from Golden Sun are all great characters who would be fun to see in a good match.

The key is to broaden yourselves to allow more variety around here. Hell, if there were more interesting ideas I might even participate in vs. threads.

That is good ideas. There has been so much brawling in this forum so I have forgotten that there can be more to versus than just that 🙂

Originally posted by General Kaliero

How about instead of using all the same overpowered characters all the time, have some fun - yes, fun in a forum about video games - and lessen the stakes. How about a match between a Koopa Troopa and a Shy Guy?
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Because a Koopa and a shy guy both die in one hit from Mario jumping on them. The debate would last two posts and then there'd be trolling for the other page before it got closed. 😬

I think you guys should make some threads and provide some videos or wiki articles, since you two seem to be only the ones that have a plethora of random obscure characters within your minds.

edit- GK already did it. Kinda.
Let's hope it gets more then ten replies. 😐

It was a stupid thread. Nothing can beat the Running Man in a race.

FACT.

Originally posted by NonSensi-Klown
Because a Koopa and a shy guy both die in one hit from Mario jumping on them. The debate would last two posts and then there'd be trolling for the other page before it got closed. 😬

Both have no feats, and no powers other than running into people. 😐

Then you have the occasional Flyguy.

How is that thread a good idea again? 😐

It is the point.

It's difficult to have any real sort of debate about two characters, both of which have no feats, die in one hit, deal damage in strange ways that outside of game mechanics shouldn't actually hurt, and one of which has no arms.

Even if it wasn't to the death, a race or something, the Koopa waddles in a straight line and oves slow as hell while a Shy Guy at least hovers.

I answered your thread in one post. 😐

Originally posted by Dark-Jaxx
Both have no feats, and no powers other than running into people. 😐

Then you have the occasional Flyguy.

How is that thread a good idea again? 😐

Way to completely miss the point of our suggestions, which is 'feats' don't necessarily matter. Things are allowed to be silly here, damnit.

Actually, not all Shyguys even have wings.

Some do shoot little orbs out their mouths though. 😐

Shyguy ftw. 😐

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Okay. Make the thread.

Originally posted by Peach
Way to completely miss the point of our suggestions, which is 'feats' don't necessarily matter. Things are allowed to be silly here, damnit.

Originally posted by Dark-Jaxx
Okie dokie, I'll make an Altair vs. Solid Snake thread, and the match involves who can in a fight where they are only allowed to use their noses in combat.

Originally posted by Dark-Jaxx
Okie dokie, I'll make an Altair vs. Solid Snake thread, and the match involves who can in a fight where they are only allowed to use their noses in combat.

Okay, that made me laugh.

But what if, say, someone made a Solid Snake vs. Altair thread, where the basis of it was they had to infiltrate a place, and it was based around who'd be the most likely to get all the way through without being caught?

That sort of thing. That would be pretty neat.

I made you laughed? Mission Succeeded then. 131

I actually think that has been done before.

Originally posted by Peach
Well if you really want, I could probably name half of that from one game series alone...the Prince, Dark Prince, Farah, Kaileena, Shahdee, the Dahaka, and the Vizier. All great characters, all very usable, yet have rarely even been touched.

Plus everyone just approaches matches here as straight-out brawls. It doesn't necessarily need to be that. What about magic or summons battles (which thus allows for mages - Lulu, Yuna, Zelda, Garnet, Rydia, etc)? What about battles of wits? What about doing something other than matching up the strongest characters you can think of and using some of the other 'weaker' characters? Matches don't need to be straight beating the shit out of each other.

I've got 12 very usable characters listed there, if people would actually think. What now?

I have a Q: are you allowed gauntlet matches? One of my gauntlet threads was closed. Just wondering.

Gauntlets are subject to the same restrictions regular matches are subject to. If yours was closed, it was because it broke a rule.

Hint - read the rules thread before making threads.